The LEGO Ideas theme, which started in 2008 as an offshoot of the Japanese website Cuusoo, then formally known as LEGO Cuusoo, is based around a website which allows users to submit ideas for LEGO products to be turned into potential sets available commercially. If fellow users in the LEGO Ideas community up vote the project to 10000 then LEGO Group has a committee which votes on whether to build the set and release it. If the project is approved and cleared for production, it is developed and later released as an official set under the "LEGO Ideas" banner and the original designer receives 1% of the royalties and a number of free sets. Typically, a few projects are approved a year and most are rejected due to various restrictions.
2018 LEGO Sets
2018 celebrated the brick’s 60th anniversary and the minifigure’s 40th. The Wizarding World returned after a long hiatus, spanning Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts. New themes included Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Unikitty!, The Powerpuff Girls, and the first wave of Overwatch, while Star Wars covered Solo-era releases. Toys-to-life title LEGO Dimensions had wrapped, and Nexo Knights ended around this time.